CHENNAI: As part of the efforts to modernise the state

forensic department, chief minister on Saturday inaugurated

a new DNA profilebased search tool at the . The

new device will help trace abandoned , inter-state

criminals and child sexual predators among others.

After a damning report about fraud in intercountry adoption, Flanders wants to check more closely with which countries it still cooperates. A risk analysis will be carried out for each country based on six criteria. Countries that do not meet this requirement will be removed from the list. Especially African countries with corrupt governments are targeted. "It is our absolute priority to exclude child trafficking and trauma."

At the beginning of September, the bomb exploded in adoption country. After a voluminous and damning report on human trafficking and fraud in intercountry adoption, Flemish Minister of Family Wouter Beke (CD&V) wanted to go through with it. Following the example of the Netherlands, he himself proposed an adoption break of two years. Ultimately, Beke was called back by coalition partner N-VA. A reform was allowed, a revolution was not.

Today, Beke put a new plan on the table: six strict selection criteria, so that the bad apples are thrown out of the basket. Countries that do not meet these criteria will be removed from the list. It is expected that a large number, read: especially African countries, will no longer qualify.

Traceability

The main requirement is traceability. Flanders must be able to trace through which steps it has been decided in the country of origin to proceed with intercountry adoption. “What we do not want is a process in which a home can decide for itself to take in a certain child and then indicate after a while that the child is eligible for adoption, without having followed a process within youth care”, says Beke. “Traceability is also important for adoptees looking for the story behind their adoption, and for prospective parents who want to make sure that the best interests of the child have been carefully considered.”

In the Netherlands, fertility clinics guarantee that a sperm donor will donate to a maximum of twelve women. Yet a handful of men manage to produce hundreds of children worldwide with their semen. For these 'super spreaders', sperm donation is a lifestyle. Although clinics unofficially maintain a blacklist, they do not hinder these mass donors. "They were thrilled with every healthy donor."

In 2017 Anneke will receive an unexpected phone call: the doctor who had helped her conceive through a donor eight years earlier is on the line. The doctor tells her that her donor is Jonathan, who is in the news at the time because he had produced as many as 102 children through sperm donations to Dutch clinics.

At the time, her practitioners assured Anneke that a maximum of 25 children would be born with the sperm from her donor. But Jonathan's claim that he didn't donate anywhere else turned out to be false. Jonathan had visited almost all Dutch clinics.

Jonathan is now on an unofficial blacklist of fertility clinics. He is one of a handful of men who deliberately cross legal boundaries and have produced (much) more children than the law allows. The blacklist is unofficial, because under applicable privacy laws, clinics are not allowed to exchange information about their donors, but it was born out of necessity.

A preventive system to thwart 'serial sperm donors' has still not been set up. To this day, Dutch clinics only ask a sperm donor to sign a statement stating that he has not previously donated to another clinic and will not do so. Jonathan has signed at all clinics.

Well-educated, resourceful family of children, who got involved locally, have got a discriminating fuckfinger and give up.

Stevns : Imagine this thought experiment:

Scenario 1: You walk down Algade in the town hall town of Store Heddinge, with a stroller and minor children, and out of the blue a man comes by and gives you a fuckfinger.

Scenario 2: You have picked up your children in the day care institution, are on their way home, and a man on a bicycle is passing by, while he shouts something about the Ku Klux Klan probably taking care of you.

Fantasy? No, rather a nightmare for a young child who moved to Stevns in September 2020, but who has now put his home and wish house up for sale, and is fleeing racist abuse.

Chile has legalised a landmark law granting equal marriage rights to same-sex couples, in a momentous victory for gay rights activists in an historically Catholic country.

The legislation was passed by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the parliament on Tuesday to approve a marriage equality bill that also includes legalisation for adoptions by same-sex couples.

With this Chile has become the 31st nation in Latin America and sixth in South America to allow same-sex marriage.

On Tuesday, the bill was approved by the Senate with 82 votes in favour and 20 in against with two abstentions. Following the landmark vote, several deputies in the Chamber hugged, including some from opposing parties.

The equal marriage bill has stalled in Congress for four years after first presented by left-leaning president Michelle Bachelet and remained neglected until it was given urgent status by President Sebastián Piñera. Mr Piñera’s support came as a surprise to everyone as he had long argued that marriage is a union between a man and a woman.The law will allow gay couples with parental rights, which was until now prohibited under the Civil Union act.

Around 71

children, mostly malnourished and

suffering from skin infections, were

recovered last month from the shelter

home of Dr Ketan Soni, the alleged

As Le Vif revealed in June 2020, five Métis women had sued the Belgian state for crimes against humanity. Born to Belgian fathers and Congolese mothers, they had been placed in an orphanage. The trial began last October, and the Brussels civil court has just dismissed them.

The Brussels civil court ruled, in a judgment handed down on Wednesday, that the segregation of mixed race children in the Congo was not incriminated as a crime against humanity during the period when Belgium was in charge of this African country. . He thus declared unfounded the action of five women who were victims of this system set up by the Belgian authorities in the Congo.

Five women, born in the Congo between 1946 and 1950, had filed a complaint against the Belgian state for crimes against humanity and had brought a civil liability action before the civil court in Brussels.

Read also: They assign the Belgian state for crimes against humanity: "We were abandoned there" (testimonies)

Five women, born in the Congo between 1946 and 1950, had filed a complaint against the Belgian state for crimes against humanity and had brought a civil liability action before the civil court in Brussels. They claimed damages for the significant damage caused, but also the production of archives concerning their origins and their history.

On paper, Carlos Haas is German. But he was born in 1985 in Guatemala, Central America. When he was four months old, he was adopted in Lower Franconia. More than 30 years later, he is looking for his birth mother - and finds her. He travels to Guatemala.

The red off-road vehicle speeds down the winding road in the highlands of Guatemala.

Carlos Haas sits in the back seat with his wife and two children. Outside the mighty mountains of the Cuchumatanes pass by. But Carlos has no eye for that. He's sick of the corners. And the excitement.

“Cuánto falta ahorita?” Again he wants to know how long it will be. 40 minutes, says Maco.

"There is no protocol, listen to your heart"

On paper, Carlos Haas is German. But he was born in 1985 in Guatemala, Central America. At the age of 32 he went in search of his mother - and found her. But her violent husband stands between the two.

Nine months have passed since Marco Antonio Garavito - the man with the mustache whom everyone just calls "Maco" - found Carlos' mother in the highlands of Guatemala. I'm in the office of his organization in Guatemala City, which helps adoptive children find their birth parents. I want to know from Maco how mother and son became closer.

“It took several months, she spoke to me and I wrote to Carlos until one day I suggested that they speak to each other directly. But Victoriana couldn't make a phone call at home because nobody was allowed to notice. "

The mother secretly telephones her son

Especially not Victoriana's husband. Because she never told him anything about the adoption.

A man who spent the first two weeks of his life in a mother and baby home is planning a legal challenge against the State for excluding people who lived less than six months in an institution from its redress scheme.

The man, who wants to be known by his birth name, Paul, has put Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman on notice of judicial review proceedings.

He lived in a mother and baby home until he was two weeks old, after which he was taken for adoption.

The man was reunited with his birth mother, Maria Arbuckle, a campaigner for survivors of mother and baby homes, for the first time this year.

Ms Arbuckle was among the survivors who protested against the long-awaited redress scheme announced last month by the Government.